| Region of Interest | South Asia |
| Primary Country of Residence | United States of America |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Affiliation | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Email | Saikia@email.unc.edu |
| Mailing Address | Department of History, CB #3195
Hamilton Hall
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA |
| Phone/Fax Number(s) | phone: 919-929-7036 (residence)
919-962-3961 (office) |
| Countries of Specialization | India |
| Research Interests | I am interested in a broad range of issues and topics in South Asian
history, particularly the politics of memory in post-colonial South Asia
and the tensions between national history and local narratives. My
research focuses on the interaction between identity and memory in
India's northeastern state of Assam. I have started preliminary
research on my second project. The subject is Silence, and I am
exploring the story of the victims of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation.
My most recent publication was In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of
the Swargadeos in the Crossroads of Assam (Delhi, 1997) |
| Publications | None on file. |
| Keywords | national history ; local narratives ; politics ; memory ; ... |
